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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Ambleminae | Pleurobemini | Pleurobema

species Pleurobema plenum (Lea, 1840): synonymy
     1 specimen

Unio plenus Lea, 1840
Lea, 1840. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1: 286.
Lea, 1842. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 8 [O. 3]: 211 [49], pl. 14, fig. 26.
Type(s): HOLOTYPE USNM_84677, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) plenaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (s.s.) solidusCall (1900)
Quadrula obliquaOrtmann (1909)
Pleurobema plenaOrtmann (1910)
Unio plenusde Gregorio (1914)
Pleurobema obliquum plenumUtterback (1915)
Quadrula cordataVanatta (1915)
Pleurobema obliqua cordatumOrtmann (1918)
Pleurobema plenumOrtmann & Walker (1922), Turgeon et al. (1988), Cummings & Mayer (1992), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), ... Inoue et al. (2018), Klymus et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Pleurobema cordatum plenumOrtmann (1925), Gordon et al. (1979)
Quadrula (Obliquata) cordata-plenaFrierson (1927)
Quadrula (Obliquata) cordata plenaHaas (1969)
Pleurobema premorsaMorrison (1969)
Pleurobema cordatumBurch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), Strayer & Jirka (1997)
Pleurobema (Sintoxia) plenaCampbell & Lydeard (2012)
Pleurobema (Sintoxia) plenumBurlakova et al. (2012)

Quadrula cordata Vanatta, 1915
‘Rafinesque’ Vanatta, 1915. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 67: 558.
(misidentified reference to Obovaria cordata Rafinesque, 1820)

Pleurobema plenumOrtmann & Walker (1922), Parmalee & Bogan (1998), Watters et al. (2009)

Taxonomic History (since 1900)

Quadrula (sec. Fusconaia) plenaSimpson (1900), Simpson (1914)
Unio (s.s.) solidusCall (1900)
Quadrula obliquaOrtmann (1909)
Pleurobema plenaOrtmann (1910)
Unio plenusde Gregorio (1914)
Pleurobema obliquum plenumUtterback (1915)
Quadrula cordataVanatta (1915)
Pleurobema obliqua cordatumOrtmann (1918)
Pleurobema plenumOrtmann & Walker (1922), Turgeon et al. (1988), Cummings & Mayer (1992), Williams et al. (1993), IUCN (1996), ... Inoue et al. (2018), Klymus et al. (2020), Graf & Cummings (2021), FMCS (2021), Hopper et al. (2023)
Pleurobema cordatum plenumOrtmann (1925), Gordon et al. (1979)
Quadrula (Obliquata) cordata-plenaFrierson (1927)
Quadrula (Obliquata) cordata plenaHaas (1969)
Pleurobema premorsaMorrison (1969)
Pleurobema cordatumBurch (1975), R.I. Johnson (1980), Strayer & Jirka (1997)
Pleurobema (Sintoxia) plenaCampbell & Lydeard (2012)
Pleurobema (Sintoxia) plenumBurlakova et al. (2012)

 
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